of women on the basis of “sanitising the Federal Capital Territory and maintaining its master plan”, which the authorities have claimed.
On getting there, we met 11 women sitting on the floor. Two of them said they were arrested while inside a ‘Keke Napep’ while some were arrested in front of a supermarket. Others, however, were just walking by the road and got picked up. At this point, it was about 11:15 p.m. and I was worried that the women would sleep there. I took a peep into the cell and it looked full. It also did not look like there was a separate place for women. My colleague then drew my attention to what the inmates were saying, one of them said, “omo, see plenty fish”.
However, the only way the Inspector General of Police can put an end to this arbitrary arrests or abduction of women on the streets is to make example of the officers who are bent on giving the police and the rest of the country, a bad name.While interacting with some of the officers at the police station, they said the women were prostitutes and they want to protect them from the dangers of prostitution. First, prostitution is not a crime known to law in Nigeria.
Do you mean Abuja prostitutes?